August 15th!

On Thursday this week I'm putting in the paperwork to quit my job!!! I'm excited. I've hated working there, and I'm glad that I'm going back to school, but then I'll get a couple weeks in and want to be on vacation again. I have to continue to work at that hell hole until the 15th of August. That is only like nineteen days!! Its going to be a little sad going back this year because a lot of my friends graduated this last school year and aren't coming back, while some are like me, who "technically" graduated in May, and are coming back. (that sentence is a little long, but I never said that I was awesome at English or grammar. In fact I kind of suck at it...Those are the classes that I despise, and am glad I don't have to take anymore of!) There is one of my friends, that I know of, that is going to France to do an internship.

 On completely random news I went to the dentist the other day, and I didn't have any cavities. So to celebrate we went to 7-11 and got some cavities. The point that I'm trying to make is that my dentist said something funny and I would like to share with you. She asked me if I floss everyday. I'm not going to lie so I say no. She says that it doesn't matter too much since I have so much saliva that I'm basically self cleaning... Whatever doc, if I don't have to floss that is awesome news...

I went to see my foot doctor today. (can't spell the correct terminology for it/ I forgot what it was called). He told me that its good that I'm quitting work, because that will help my foot not hurt. He put tape on it and told me that I have a right foot of a person who is older than 40... He also told me that the tape is supposed to last 3-5 days, but knowing my feet, it will probably be coming off by tomorrow...

Oh and today is my cousins birthday. I miss hanging out with him and kind of want to go back to Utah...But I thought that I would put a picture up of me and my cousin hanging out, because its his birthday. 

Happy Birthday Cousin, lets go back to the festival next year.

Money? What money?

So I've been working for BK for a couple weeks, okay maybe a month, I don't know how long I've been working there. The point is that I've been getting paid. And while it feels good to get money, I still really hate working there. I spent my last paycheck on a beautiful new kitchen aid. I haven't used it yet, but I already love it and the new recipes that can go with it. Like making bread. "But Sara, you don't need a kitchen aid to make bread."
I know that random person, but I now have a kitchen aid and it will make it that much easier. I haven't decided on which recipe to try out first in my kitchen aid. Any ideas? My cousin is having a birthday on the 31st, and he wants me to make something creative, something other than a plain old boring yellow cake. I was thinking maybe a pineapple upside down cake, because I think they are delicious, but I'm going to go on like a scavenger hunt to try and find a "creative, delicious, worthy of my kitchen aid" recipe. And I have no idea why I felt the need to say all this at 12:37 am... but I did, and now I must go off to dream-land so that I can go to work-hell in the morning.
Have I mentioned that I've worked every weekend since I started, except one, and I had to request that one off. But ended up working for my mom on that weekend, which was supposed to be spent relaxing, but we had a garage sale. With garage sales the WHOLE family needs to help out apparently... Also I'm putting my two week notice in on the 1st...

Pastry Chef? Indeed!

I know I have been absent most of the time on this blog, and I'm not going to promise to try and do better about it. Because I know that I would break that promise. I really hate working at BK. But in a sense I'm glad that I'm working at BK. One I'm getting paid to work there, two it only confirms more that I want to be a baker. For awhile there I was just saying that that is what I wanted to do, because people told me that that is what I should be. But for me, it only hit me more recently. After doing my internship and having very few days where I just wanted to be lazy and lounge around and not go to work. Versus not wanting to go to work at all. I think that I have told my mom almost every time I have to work that I don't want to go to work.
On other news we had a garage sale this weekend, and we got rid of quite a bit of the pile that had been gathering in our basement. We still have some stuff that didn't sell. Things like clothing that we were trying to sell is going to be donated so we feel good about ourselves. Other things like my X-Box is going to be put on craigslist. So if you know anyone that wants an X-box 360 elite, its hardly been used, let me know.
There really isn't much else that has been going on in my life recently. I'm going to try to go to the Ren Faire on the 16th. And hopefully I'll get to see one of my good friends the weekend of the 23rd. Hopefully I'll be back to post more before almost a month has gone by...if not I'll be back eventually. Haha.

Coffee

Recently I got a job working at BK. I've only worked four days. Well today I was out front working the cash register, and this lady(I'm calling her Ms. Coffee) comes into and asks for a cup of coffee. I was more than willing to give it to her. She gives me a credit card and it gets declined. So she gives me a second card and it gets declined as well. Ms. Coffee starts digging around in her purse for some money to pay me, the coffee was only a $1.30. She ended up being 20 cents short. I asked my manager(Mr. Boss) if I could give her the coffee and forget about the money that she owed us. He said that it was fine, and he poured the coffee for Ms. Coffee. Mr. Boss left enough room for cream and sugar for Ms. Coffee. Well a little bit later she came back and wanted to have the coffee filled up the rest of the way. I was happily obliging. when she asks me if it is decaf. The conversation went a little bit like this.

Ms. Coffee(MC): Is this decaf?
Me: I don't know, nor can I guarantee that it is right now.
MC: What do you mean you don't know or that you can't guarantee it?
Me: I didn't make the coffee, I didn't put the coffee here, I don't know for 100% that it is decaf.
MC: Well this is for my mother, and she has a heart condition and high blood pressure, she can't have caffeine.

She got very angry at me and was not letting me try to explain or ask someone who could guarantee it. As she was walking away she finally said that I should go ask somebody or something like that. I might have said something a little bit louder that I meant to, and that I shouldn't have said. I don't really remember exactly how the conversation went but I think that you will get the general idea of it.  Oh and the whole point of me telling you this story about Ms. Coffee is that she is filing a complaint against me. On my fourth day of work. Over coffee. I understand that her mom could die or have complications from caffeine, but at least give me a chance to explain or ask someone that does know.

That;s my side and I'm sticking to it.

And since this is a supposed to be a pastry blog I will update you on a recipe I made recently. I got it from another blog and the pictures look really good and makes me want some. So I thought I would try out the S'more Pie. I won't lie, it was okay. It was not my favorite dessert, I probably won't make it ever again. When it was fresh out of the oven was probably the best time to eat it. Which I did, but there seemed to be a taste that I did not care for. I even tried it while it was cold and it still had the taste that I did not care for. I believe that it was the marshmallow fluff that was used.  It did sort of taste like s'mores, but I would prefer burning the marshmallows over an open flame and making s'mores that way.
Try it, don't try. You have my opinion and I don't care what you do with it.

Summer Break

I finished my internship on my 20th birthday. I am now back at my parents house and so far haven't really done anything exciting. I'm no longer a teenager though, so that's exciting. I really enjoyed my last day of internship and my birthday. I am kind of starting to miss everyone in Utah. I didn't think that I would really be upset by coming back home. but I made some friends and I miss them. As for my summer break I am trying to find a job doing anything I can, so far not so good.
The other day we got a letter from some of our good friends who live in Alaska. The had a cookbook enclosed and there is a recipe that I want to try out. Its a five minute chocolate cake recipe, and it literally should take five minutes to make and cook. I'll test it out and then pass it on to whoever might read this.

Hairs Cut

Today I got my hairs cut, yes I know it sounds weird or strange to say hairs cut, but its the truth. I didn't have A hair cut, but I had them all cut. I haven't had them cut in almost two years. I got about five-ish inches off in some areas and even more in the bangs area. Now some might ask why now, or why that much? Well I finally got tired of my hair and didn't feel like changing the color again or this soon after just coloring it.
I am also feeling like I haven't been sick in the last couple weeks, so that's good news.
I am also excited to report that I have two weeks left of my internship and that also means that it is two weeks to my birthday. I do not know what I want for my birthday. I am thinking that I want a party with the family that is in Utah, but I don't think I will get one. We'll see.
This weekend is Mothers day, and I can't be there to celebrate it with my mother, but I hope that the gifts I picked out for her will get there on time and that she will love them. I am however going to visit some family friends and celebrate Mothers day with them.

Now here are before and after pictures.

See how long it is?

Now its all short and cute

Sickness

Lets see, what has been going on with me. I haven't posted in awhile, and that's because nothing really exciting has been going on with me so there really isn't anything to blog about. The bad news is that I'm sick again. And its bad news because I'm supposed to be work. Now someone might ask why don't you just suck it up and go to work? Well I would suck it up and go to work if I wasn't contagious. But since I'm contagious I shouldn't really be working with food and making other people sick. Also someone might ask what do you have? Well the doctor told me that it is either copycat strep or mono... With copycat strep there really isn't anything that they can do for me. With mono they can't find out if I have it until I've had it for awhile. Either way I'm out of work until Thursday and I'm pretty sure I have to make up the days that I've missed. My best friend right now is a Popsicle or maybe the gargle that the doctor gave me. Both make my throat hurt a little less for a little while.